Xi Zhongxun

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Xi Zhongxun, 1946

Xi Zhongxun ( Chinese  習仲勛  /  习仲勋 , Pinyin Xí Zhòngxūn ) (born October 15, 1913 in Fuping (Weinan) , Shaanxi ; † May 24, 2002 ) was a communist Chinese politician and revolutionary and a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China . He is assigned to the first generation of leaders in the People's Republic of China . He was the father of Xi Jinping .

Life

Xi Zhongxun joined the Chinese Communist Youth Association in May 1926 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1928 . He was one of the founders of communist rule in Yan'an , the goal of the Long March in 1935. In 1956, he was elected a member of the Central Committee at the Eighth Party Congress . In 1959 he became China's deputy prime minister, until he fell out of favor with the Communist Party in 1962 and was dismissed from office for lack of loyalty to Mao Zedong .

Fully rehabilitated after the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1978, he became governor of Guangdong Province . In 1979 he obtained permission from Deng Xiaoping to introduce the first special economic zones . In 1981 he was elected deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and in 1982 a member of the Politburo. He was a supporter of Hu Yaobang , the liberal general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 1980, who was ousted in 1987. In 1988 he retired to private life and lived in Shenzhen for most of the time . He later condemned the 1989 Tiananmen massacre . After that, he was rarely seen in public and there are reports that he was in prison.

Xi Zhongxun was the mentor of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao .

He had three children from his first marriage, a son and two daughters, and from his second marriage four children, two sons, including Xi Jinping , and two daughters.

Publications

  • China's New Rulers: The Secret File, Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley, The New York Review Book
  • The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966 (Columbia University Press, 1997)

Web links

Commons : Xi Zhongxun  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tập Cận Bình - 'Lãnh đạo tương lai' của Trung Quốc. Retrieved June 23, 2011 (vt).
  2. ^ Page, Jeremy (October 19, 2010). "Xi's Career Gives Few Clues to His Beliefs" , Wall Street Journal
  3. ↑ Willy Wo-Lap Lam : Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, Or Retrogression, Routledge, 2015, p. 38 [1]
personal data
SURNAME Xi Zhongxun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuping (Weinan) , Shaanxi
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2002